Created and directed by Australian media artist Lynette Wallworth with principal photography by David Hannan, Coral: Rekindling Venus is an immersive Full Dome format film experience that takes viewers underwater through the mysterious realm of fluorescent coral reefs.

Featuring music by Max Richter, songs by Tanya Tagaq Gillis, Antony and the Johnsons, and Gurrumul Yunupingu, Lynette’s intent “…is to leave the audience with a sense of wonder for the complexity and beauty of coral reefs, and a stronger understanding of our connection to them”.

Premiering reportedly to “audible gasps” (Huffington Post) in New York’s Hayden Planetarium Space Theater on it’s impressive 30 meter (87-foot) dome screen – and simultaneously in a dozen other cities around the globe to co-incide with the Transit of Venus, June 5, 2012 – this 45-minute Full Dome show keeps getting rapt and positive attention from audiences and critics alike.

According to the L.A. Times: ” As close as most of us are going to get to feeling like we’re in a James Cameron submersible, “Coral” is immersive cinema at its most spectacular”.

Producer John Maynard of Felix Media adds: “Lynette’s work, beyond its beauty and visionary scope has created a benchmark in full-dome work and is quickly enlivening the market with the potential of new content. Inclusion in the prestigious Sundance Film Festival New Frontier exhibition helps our film find wider audiences and helps to spread support for our endangered coral reefs”.

Lynette’s current favourite review and analysis by Julie Fisher “that absolutely nails the work and the experience” is on Indiewire.

… and an astonishing reference in The Guardian to “… a mind-boggling film about psychedelic coloured coral reefs, the colours of which are affected when the planet Venus comes through the atmosphere …(with)… mesmerising soundtrack that will take you into another world”.